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On the recordMay 11, 2022
Today, we have listened with tears in our eyes and purpose in our heart to the tragic stories of the treatment of young Native American children who were torn from their parents, torn from their families, torn from their culture, torn from their homeland, and forced into conditions that if you told us these stories today, we would say it was torture.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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Acknowledging the painful history of Native American children taken from their families.

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